least partially explain the increased tendency for young LGBT individuals to adopt these ideas, for example. On the other hand, once people are more hopeful about the future, and once they have meaningful things to believe in and a stake in caring for the health of society, they are less inclined to embrace extreme ideas like critical theory and postmodernism. This was effectively why most baby boomers turned away from critical theory. Understanding this provides us with a way to tame the beast for a second time, and perhaps for good this time.
We Need to Raise Awareness About The Problem To effectively tackle any problem, we must first be aware of it, and be able to define it. This is, perhaps, the most important part of our work right now. Awareness about the effects of critical theory and postmodernism has been increasing in right-leaning circles in recent years, but there remains misunderstandings even in the majority who are aware of the problem. In moderate and left-leaning circles, however, awareness about the effects of critical theory and postmodernism is still extremely low. This represents the biggest problem, in my opinion, because critical theory and postmodernist activists mainly target left-leaning people for their recruitment and alliance building. Without much resistance to their ideas in left-leaning circles, critical theory and postmodernist activism keeps growing every year. Without many people to challenge their ideas in left-leaning
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